Class Notes

1951 Gary Noyes ’65, ’67 (MS) shares the news that Bob Ginsberg (MS), a longtime friend of Gary’s and fellow optics alumnus, died in July. “I first met Bob while I was a grad student at the Institute of Optics and he was instrumental in introducing me to Hughes Aircraft Co., where I wound up working for 30-plus years,” Gary writes. Bob was born in North Dakota to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents. Before college, he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and was navigator of a B-24 Liberator bomber on missions in Italy, Germany, and Austria. After he earned his graduate degree at the Institute of Optics, Bob spent most of his career at Hughes Aircraft, where he worked on projects related to the US space program. But he began his career in Rochester at Bausch & Lomb, followed by four years as a research associate at the Institute of Optics, where he help fabricate special lenses for the wide-angle movie process first used in Oklahoma!

1966 Larry Klein (MS) has published ITS Sensors and Architectures for Traffic Management and Connected Vehicles (Taylor and Francis), his 10th book. He’s a systems engineer and a leader in the development of worldwide standards to evaluate traffic sensors.

1967 Gary Noyes (MS) (see ’51).

1968 Arthur Rosen (PhD) (see ’62 College).

1970 Joseph Amato (PhD) has published a work of historical fiction set in the 1850s, Buffalo Man: Life of a Boy Giant on the Minnesota River (Crossings Press).

1984 Bharat Trehan (PhD) (see ’88).

1986 Prakash Loungani (PhD) (see ’88).

1988 Carsten Kowalczyk (PhD), an associate professor of international economics at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, is the coauthor of Globalization: Strategies and Effects (Stringer-Verlag). Contributors also include Prakash Loungani ’86 (PhD) and Bharat Trehan ’84 (PhD), as well as Ronald Jones, a professor emeritus of economics at Rochester.

1995 Jennifer Traylor Kruschwitz (MS) (see ’89 College).

1997 Julie Taddeo (PhD) (see ’87 College). . . . Lynn Vavreck (PhD) is a coauthor of Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America (Princeton University Press). She’s a professor of political science and communication studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

2000 Marla Bruns (MS) (see ’99 College).

2008 Catherine Marsh Agar (MA) has published 52 Words: A Vocabulary of Spiritual Mindfulness (Verbal Images Press). She teaches writing at Keuka College.

2010 Jeremy Saucier (PhD) has coauthored A History of Video Games in 64 Objects (Dey Street Books). Jeremy is assistant vice president for interpretation and electronic games at the Strong National Museum of Play and editor of the American Journal of Play.

2013 Matt Moynihan (PhD) writes that he and Alison Gaylo ’16M (PhD), ’18M (MD) were married at Colgate Divinity School in Rochester. They’re living in Pittsburgh, where Matt is a senior nuclear engineer at Bechtel and Alison is starting a dermatology residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Pictured from left to right are Andy Cox ’16M (PhD), ’18M (MD), Kyle Koster ’16M (MS), ’18M (MD), Sam Carrell ’16M (PhD), ’18M (MD), Ellie Frett Carrell ’16M (PhD), Megan Cox ’13M (MD), ’16M (Res), Sade Fridy ’16M (MPH), Adrianne Chesser ’15M (PhD), ’17M (MD), David Bruestle ’08E, ’09RC, ’17M (PhD), and Katie Herman ’08E, ’09RC, ’17M (PhD).

2017 Dan Gorman (MA) (see ’14 College). . . . Mitch Gruber (PhD) was elected to the Rochester City Council in 2017. He’s also the chief program officer at the nonprofit Foodlink. . . . Justin Winkler (PhD) has joined the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Virginia, as a research staff member.